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Much of Sweden is heavily forested, with 69% [1] of the country being forest and woodland, while farmland constitutes only 8% of land use. [2] Sweden consists of 39,960 km 2 of water area, constituting around 95,700 lakes. [3] [A] The lakes are sometimes used for water power plants, especially the large northern rivers and lakes.
Sweden, [f] formally the Kingdom of Sweden, [g] [h] is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), [ 4 ] Sweden is the largest Nordic country and the fifth-largest country in Europe.
Sweden remained a neutral country during the First World War, the Korean War and the Cold War. In 1945, Norway, Denmark and Iceland were founding members of the United Nations. Sweden joined the U.N. soon after. Finland joined during the 1950s. The first Secretary General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, was a Norwegian citizen.
Sweden geography stubs (22 C, 224 P) Pages in category "Geography of Sweden" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Geography of Sweden. Sweden is: a Nordic country; Location: The regions that Sweden is located in are: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Europe. Northern Europe. Scandinavia. Scandinavian Peninsula; Time zone: Central European Time , Central European Summer Time ; Extreme points of Sweden. High: Kebnekaise 2,104 m (6,903 ft)
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden; lit. ' the North ') [2] are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway [a] and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.
This is a list of islands of Sweden. A 2013 statistics report concluded that there are 267,570 islands in Sweden, though less than 1,000 of these are inhabited. [ 1 ] The total area of the islands is 1.2 million hectares, which corresponds to 3% percent of the total land area of Sweden.
The counties of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges län) are the first-level administrative subdivisions of Sweden. There are twenty-one counties; however, the number of counties has varied over time, due to territorial changes and to divisions and/or mergers of existing existing counties.